Samsung’s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong

A Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra laptop on a white table in front of a largeshelf.

Samsung really captured the aesthetic of the MacBook Pro. The feel and performance, not as much. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

II know I’m not the only person who wants a MacBook Pro for Windows: a sleek, ultra powerful, super portable machine with an excellent screen and high-quality build. Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 Ultra certainly tries. It’s got a beautiful screen and a nice design, and it’s as solidly built as laptops come.

It also looks, well, almost exactly like a MacBook Pro, to the point where I occasionally use the wrong keyboard shortcuts out of habit. Other Windows laptops have at times incorporated some MacBook design influences, but the Galaxy houses so many of them that it’s obvious what Samsung was going for.

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